Trivia and other useless but interesting items

**4bee** · 22nd December 2021, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

"Boxed wine — also known as cardboardeaux, bag-in-box (Bi

or more commonly, goon (from flagon) — is one of Australia's most extraordinary contributions to the wine industry.

Australian winemaker Thomas Angrove patented the design for a one-gallon polyethylene bladder in a cardboard box in 1965, inspired by the ancient method of storing wine in goat skins." Link

I did not know Mr Thomas Angrove Ozzie patented the idea. Cool
I have not had a cardboardeaux since living in Perth were someone brought a 10litre Brown Bothers red box. That fixed my drinking problem

"House Wine" is often from a goony bag. Fess up. are you a goonie bag type? Mia Culpa. I did find a new environmentally gentler than glass "Chateau de Tetra pack" wine a few years ago. Honestly it wasn't a bad drop

Yes, another Aussie invention that gets overlooked a bit or maybe becomes invisible later in the session.
I was told by someone in the industry (prob a WW

) that many decent wines are in these, contrary to what most believed was crap plonk.

The problem I have found was how the **** can you tell unless you have tried it previously?

**Markf** · 22nd December 2021, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by Gav 110

The other thing about the old goon bag, is at the end of the night you have a pillow to rest your head on🤣🤣

Or if you have a practical joking type of grandson.... He waited until about 11.00pm when all was quiet along the banks of the Murray and jumped on an inflated 4 litre bladder. The noise was impressively loud and seemed to echo on forever...

**austastar** · 22nd December 2021, 02:02 PM

Hi,
Hypothetically: Filled with oxy/acetaline and with a long wick taped to the side, they will shatter to a silvery cloud of sparkles.
Or so I'm led to believe.
Earmuffs recommend!
Cheers

**Gav 110** · 22nd December 2021, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
Hypothetically: Filled with oxy/acetaline and with a long wick taped to the side, they will shatter to a silvery cloud of sparkles.
Or so I'm led to believe.
Earmuffs recommend!
Cheers

Originally Posted by Markf

Or if you have a practical joking type of grandson.... He waited until about 11.00pm when all was quiet along the banks of the Murray and jumped on an inflated 4 litre bladder. The noise was impressively loud and seemed to echo on forever...

Dry ice and water in a fizzy drink bottle gives the same noise effect and leaves the bottle in many a piece of plastic.

Trivia and other useless but interesting items

The 600ml variety give good thrust behind the potato in a spud gun if you run out of carby clean☄️☄️
And if you run out of dry ice, don’t go through the shed and mix hydrochloric acid with alfoil in the bottles

Gav

**Tins** · 22nd December 2021, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by Gav 110

The other thing about the old goon bag, is at the end of the night you have a pillow to rest your head on🤣🤣

Provided you were still capable of inflating it....

**austastar** · 22nd December 2021, 08:48 PM

Hi,
And if you are sleeping on an inflatable lilo that night, NEVER breath inflate it after drinking your goonie of red wine! Ever!
Cheers

**Tins** · 22nd December 2021, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
And if you are sleeping on an inflatable lilo that night, NEVER breath inflate it after drinking your goonie of red wine! Ever!
Cheers

But that's the only time I'd need one!!

**Markf** · 22nd December 2021, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by Gav 110

Dry ice and water in a fizzy drink bottle gives the same noise effect and leaves the bottle in many a piece of plastic.

The 600ml variety give good thrust behind the potato in a spud gun if you run out of carby clean☄️☄️
And if you run out of dry ice, don’t go through the shed and mix hydrochloric acid with alfoil in the bottles

Gav

From my much younger days I may, or may not, remember the destructive power of a bucket of ammonium nitrate fertiliser and diesel and a "threepenny bunger"......

**Gav 110** · 22nd December 2021, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by Markf

From my much younger days I may, or may not, remember the destructive power of a bucket of ammonium nitrate fertiliser and diesel and a "threepenny bunger"......

Never new about and/or had access to the mentioned above, just had to make do

Not admitting I actually used anything I spoke about but for some reason, good or bad, do know the ratios required

If it all turns to ****, I’m going straight to dads shed and mums draw🤣🤣

**Tins** · 22nd December 2021, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by Markf

From my much younger days I may, or may not, remember the destructive power of a bucket of ammonium nitrate fertiliser and diesel and a "threepenny bunger"......

Had a play with that combo on a roadworks site back in the day. The bunger was replaced with a stick of gelly. With a det a large bang would ensue. 'Course, it was a little more scientific than that. We'd be setting more than 20 holes, bloke in charge knew the time of the dets so the charge would all blow in the correct order, and we'd push a button on a thing called a Beethoven..

The gelignite cracked the rock. ( bluestone ), but the nitro prill blew it out of the hole amazingly. There was much fun when he'd fill the last hole with what we had left...

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